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From tiny, burrowing lizards to rainforest canopy-dwellers and
giant crocodiles, reptile populations everywhere are changing. Yet
government and conservation groups are often forced to make
important decisions about reptile conservation and management based
on inadequate or incomplete data. With contributions from nearly
seventy specialists, this volume offers a comprehensive guide to
the best methods for carrying out standardized quantitative and
qualitative surveys of reptiles, while maximizing comparability of
data between sites, across habitats and taxa, and over time. The
contributors discuss each method, provide detailed protocols for
its implementation, and suggest ways to analyze the data, making
this volume an essential resource for monitoring and inventorying
reptile abundance, population status, and biodiversity.
"Reptile Biodiversity "covers topics including:
- terrestrial, marine, and aquatic reptiles
- equipment recommendations and limitations
- ethics of monitoring and inventory activities
- statistical procedures
- designing sampling programs
- using PDAs in the field
Generously illustrated, this essential handbook for herpetologists,
ecologists, and naturalists features comprehensive keys to eggs,
embryos, salamander larvae, and tadpoles; species accounts; a
glossary of terms; and an extensive bibliography. The taxonomic
accounts include a summarization of the morphology and basic
natural history, as well as an introduction to published
information for each species. Tadpole mouthparts exhibit major
characteristics used in identifications, and the book includes
illustrations for a number of species. Color photographs of larvae
of many species are also presented. Handbook of Larval Amphibians
of the United States and Canada, written by the foremost experts on
larval amphibians, is the first guide of its kind and will
transform the fieldwork of scientists and fish and wildlife
professionals.
The preeminent naturalists Albert Hazen Wright and Anna Allen
Wright spent years assembling the wealth of material on frogs and
toads appearing in this widely used handbook, the third edition of
which was originally published in 1949. With abundant
black-and-white photographs, colorful descriptions, journal notes
from the field, and excerpts from the literature, their
personalized natural history emphasizes amphibians observed in the
wild. In a foreword to the 1995 paperback edition, Roy McDiarmid, a
foremost specialist on frogs and toads, brings the book into
historical perspective and supplies information to bring it up to
date. Accounts of more than 100 species and subspecies cover such
topics as common and scientific names, range, habitat, size, and
general appearance, as well as color, structure, voice, and
breeding. Separate keys are given for secondary sexual
characteristics, eggs, tadpoles, families, and species. Generous
quotations from the Wrights' field journals give the reader a sense
of the problems and satisfactions of their work.
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